Flood situation remained grim in Uttar Pradesh where the toll rose to 82 today with reports of 19 more deaths even as authorities feared outbreak of disease in the worst affected eastern parts of the state.

Union Minister and Congress candidate Beni Prasad Verma today filed his nomination for Gonda Lok Sabha seat and claimed that BJP leader Narendra Modi would be "sent to jail for his entire life" after a Congress-led government is again formed at the Centre.

Three cops, including a serving police officer, have been given the death sentence by a special CBI court in Lucknow in connection with a fake encounter case in 1982. Five others have been awarded life imprisonment.

The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today expanded his Cabinet by inducting 12 ministers. His new cabinet now includes a controversial MLA who is facing charges of kidnapped a Chief Medical Officer in 2012.

A judge in Uttar Pradesh who has been accused of molesting a 13-year-old in his chambers will be questioned within the next two days by a senior judge at Gonda, a three-hour drive from the state capital of Lucknow. The session is to be recorded on camera, said sources.

A day after a minister was forced to resign on allegations of intimidating and kidnapping the chief medical officer (CMO) in Uttar Pradesh's Gonda, the state government on Saturday shifted out the district magistrate, district police chief, chief development officer and the CMO.

The Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Uttar Pradesh's Gonda district, who was allegedly abducted by a minister on Tuesday and went missing after that, has re-joined office. He returned to work in the presence of the local Superintendent of Police and other officials.

It is the responsibility of the state to perform the last rites of unclaimed bodies but in the Gonda and Basti districts of Uttar Pradesh, bodies are dragged, kicked around and dumped in the open and in some cases, eaten away by the dogs.